X client without X server

[Olivier Nicole]

Anton,

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bris.ac.uk> wrote:
>         Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 10:55:48 +0700 (ICT)
>         From: Olivier Nicole <Olivier.Nicole at cs.ait.ac.th>
>         To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>         Subject: X client without X server
>
>         Hi,
>
>         Is there a way to install an X client without automatically install an
>         X server?
>
>         On all my systems, I throw xterm and emacs, as the primary tools I use
>         for management, but the display is always remote, I never, ever, run X
>         on the machine, but still it install X server, fonts and a lot of
>         useless junk like xcalc.
>
>         Is there a way to install xterm and only the libraries that are needed
>         to run xterm?
>
>         TIA,
>
>         Olivier
>
> I've been doing this for years.
> What's the problem?
>
> Just install xterm, or whatever you need.
> All the necessary libs will be pulled in, e.g.:
>
> $ pkg info -xd xterm
> xterm-293:
>         xproto-7.0.24
>         xextproto-7.2.1
>         renderproto-0.11.1
>         printproto-1.0.5
>         libxcb-1.9.1
>         libXrender-0.9.8
>         libXpm-3.5.10
>         libXp-1.0.2,1
>         libXext-1.3.2,1
>         libXdmcp-1.1.1
>         libXau-1.0.8
>         libX11-1.6.0,1
>         libSM-1.2.1,1
>         libICE-1.0.8,1
>         kbproto-1.0.6
>         libXt-1.1.4,1
>         libXmu-1.1.1,1
>         libXaw-1.0.11,2
>         libXft-2.3.1
>         fontconfig-2.9.0,1
>         expat-2.0.1_2
>         freetype2-2.4.12_1
>         pkgconf-0.9.2_1
>         pcre-8.33
>         libpthread-stubs-0.3_3
>
> Obviously xterm does not depend on xorg-server.

But for some reason, xorg-server gets installed too. And tons of fonts, and ...

It could be emacs, or cvsup, these are the 3 X Window clients I install.

Best regards,

Olivier